The Delta PLM Manifesto
Engineering organisations are not failing because their tools are broken.
They are failing because discipline has been replaced with delegation.
PLM was meant to bring order. It often brings theatre.
Over time, Product Lifecycle Management has drifted away from its purpose.
It has become a software-led initiative, sold as transformation, delivered as configuration, and measured in licences rather than outcomes
The result is predictable: expensive platforms sitting on top of the same broken behaviours.
When organisations pretend progress is happening
Change becomes a meeting, not a discipline.
Data ownership becomes political.
Engineers stop trusting systems and build workarounds.
Decisions are made on gut feel instead of evidence.
What we believe
Process must exist before platform.
Change must be owned, not administered.
Data integrity is an operational responsibility, not an IT task.
Tools should support behaviour - never replace it.
Control is not bureaucracy
Control is not red tape.
Control is knowing what is changing, why it is changing, and who is accountable for the outcome.
Without control, innovation is accidental. With it, innovation becomes repeatable.
Why Delta PLM exists
Delta PLM was created to restore clarity where complexity has taken over.
To replace theatre with discipline.
To help engineering organisations build systems that reflect how they actually work.